Re: [PATCH] let fat handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag

[Andrew Morton]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> AFAIK, EXT2 doesn't update all metadata synchronously in sync-mode.

It does.

I'm actually surprised to discover that [v]fat doesn't support `-o sync'. 
It's probably a quite practical way of handling these various hotpluggable
gadgets and would be a popular addition.

It does have the downside that it'll teach our users bad practices....
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